Container Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7653
Title:: The Harley Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a decorated prayerbook with an Old English gloss. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 2965 (the Book of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to first quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7656
Title:: Mathematical and philosophical fragments
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is formed of five independent parts: ff. 1r-7r: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, fragment. ff. 8r-13v: 'Liber philosophie monachorum' fragments of book 2. ff. 14r-17v: 'Liber philosophie monachorum' fragments of book 4. ff. 18r-19v: Unidentified biblical or theologica...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MSS 3799-3809
Title:: Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicinae.
Scope & Content:: This collection of 11 volumes contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (b. c. 1380, d. 1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on Books 1 (fen I-IV), 3, and 4 (only fen I) of the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Lati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1475
Extent:: 11 volumes

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